While it is possible to host WordPress websites with Azure App Service on Linux, its built-in image for PHP is not an ideal environment for WordPress in production. At SNP we turned our attention to the Web App for Containers resource as a way to provide custom Docker images for our customers. SNP's priorities were to:

Include WordPress code in the image, not referenced from the Web App /home mount.

Set custom permissions on the document root

Add more PHP extensions commonly used by WordPress sites

Add additional PHP configuration settings recommended for WordPress

A result of this effort is a GitHub repository published on February 6, 2018:

While it is possible to host WordPress websites with Azure App Service on Linux, its built-in image for PHP is not an ideal environment for WordPress in production. At SNP we turned our attention to the Web App for Containers resource as a way to provide custom Docker images for our customers. SNP's priorities were to:

Include WordPress code in the image, not referenced from the Web App /home mount.

Set custom permissions on the document root

Add more PHP extensions commonly used by WordPress sites

Add additional PHP configuration settings recommended for WordPress

A result of this effort is a GitHub repository published on February 6, 2018:

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